For those of us lucky enough to have a teaching assistant, one of the biggest challenges is to empower and involve them in the teaching and learning cycle. It’s one thing to have them grade papers, handle admin tasks, and answer the occasional student question. It’s another to give your TA tasks that allow them to feel that they are truly reaching students.

Teacher assistants can make digital flashcards for your class

Brainscape’s (free) mobile & online flashcards tool is the perfect job for your TA to help all of your students learn twice as fast, improve their motivation, and become more confident.

Teachers often ask their teaching assistants to create decks of digital flashcards (either in a web browser or via a .csv upload) that are aligned to each topic. They can do this manually, or use our AI toolkit to turn study notes into flashcards within minutes.

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Your teacher assistants can create awesome digital flashcards for your class. And for you.

Then, by sharing the class URL in Brainscape, students can easily study the flashcards in either a web browser or on their phones, wherever they are.

Brainscape's study process is adaptive learning, showing learners flashcards just before they're likely to forget them, i.e. right in their zone of proximal development. Our app's social learning tactics and rewards for study completion boost motivation. With less time spent wondering what to study, learners can save their mental energy for simply learning.

Teacher assistants can ask students to help

If you want, your TA can even enlist students’ help in creating the Brainscape flashcards themselves. It’s easy to manage “editing permissions” so that your flashcard environment is as collaborative and social as you want it to be. (Check out our free guide to having students collaboratively create digital flashcards for your class.)

The best part is that, however you create the flashcards for your class, you can track students’ study habits.

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You can not only let your teacher assistants to lead your students in creating their own flaschards, but you can even monitor their learning progress.

Engage your TAs, engage your class

Teacher assistants are a gift. Employing them effectively makes a meaningful difference for your students. Having them organize the creation of digital flashcards for your class is a great way to get them involved and support your students learning.

If you think this might be the perfect job for your TA this semester, why not invite them to our free flashcard creation tools? After all, they're proven to improve student attention spans!

Need more information? Here are more free guides we've prepared for teachers: